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    Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education
    (University of Regina Press, 2018) Battiste, Marie; Chomsky, Noam; Denzin, Norman K.; Fine, Michelle; Gill, Rosalind; Grande, Sandy; Hall, Budd L.; Lather, Patti; Leonardo, Zeus; Lincoln, Yvonne S.; McLaren, Peter; McNinch, James; Meyers, Christopher; Smith, Linda Tuhiwai; Spooner, Marc; Tuck, Eve; Weistheimer, Joel
    I submitted this foreword to Marc Spooner and James McNinch on January 20, 2017, or “j20” to some, as President-Elect Trump was sworn in as the forty-fifth president of the United States amid nationwide protests. The world is in a state of crisis and the United States is no exception. If it is a leading nation of the world, it has not always earned that title for the right reasons. That is, many of the country’s citizens question whether the United States is leading the world in the wrong direction. With the election of Donald Trump, the United States finds itself in a maelstrom of debates, deep insecurities, and divisions it was by and large surprised by and for which it was unpre¬pared.
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    Free Knowledge
    (University of Regina Press, 2015) Kneen, Brewster; Elliot, Patricia W.; Hepting, Daryl H.; Westheimer, Joel; Mahood, Sally; Schafer, Arthur; Polster, Claire; Diamantopoulos, Mitch; van der Zon, Marian; Barreno, Leonzo; Younging, Gregory; Anderson, Jane; Farley, Joshua; Kubiszewski, Ida; Verzola, Roberto; Bone, Doug; Morrison, Heather
    Broadly speaking, this collection looks at the question of knowledge: how it is generated and shared, and to what purpose. This includes both applied knowledge and what contributor Arthur Schafer refers to as “knowledge for its own sake” (page 46)—for one can hardly exist without the other. The devaluing and withdrawal of public support for the latter, and simultaneous profit-seeking commandeering of the former, leads us toward a future when human knowledge, in all its myriad forms, is dimin¬ished in the public sphere